Re: [Teas-ns-dt] Definitions draft review

["Adrian Farrel" <[e-mail]>]

Partition seems, to me, to be a regular English word that indicates breaking up into sub-components or areas of responsibility.

 

For example…

 

8453 uses the term “partition” fairly freely and equates it with “slice”, but has no explicit definition.

 

8283 has a whole section on “Partitioned Network”

 

7926 talks about partitioning networks

 

7698 talks about partitioning resources (in a GMPLS sense)

 

7579 talks about partitioning switch matrices

 

7524 talks about partitioning end-to-end paths

 

7420 mentions a physical router being portioned into multiple virtual routers

 

7356, 6992 and 6981 talk about a topology being partitioned in the classic sense of broken into two disconnected pieces

 

7348 talks about partitioning traffic

 

Etc.

 

There is a special case meaning that is common (as in 7356) when applied to a network, but otherwise it just means divided up.

 

Best,

Adrian

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Introduction 

*	It is used the term “partitioning” that has a clear and well defined definition in other SDO, e.g. ITU-T in G.800/G.805 (section 5.3..2) , not sure in IETF. So, my suggestion would be or to change term e.g. “separation” could be used, or make a reference of a clear definition (as I reported) .

 [KM] I would prefer to keep the term partitioning as it is generally well understood and take the second option to find a good reference with in IETF docs or we could one in this I.D.